Are you primarily a one kit only scrapper, on a budget or looking for ways to extend your stash?
Mashing 2 (or 3!) kits together (and making your own customised collab!) gives you so many opportunities but means you won’t have to spend all your time tagging or searching your stash. If mixing and matching is not your normal style and feels daunting, this series will look at several ways to make mixing different design styles easier than you think!
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Hi there and welcome to a fun new way to start Mondays in the middle of the month – The Monday Mash-up!
* a combination or mixing of dissimilar elements, especially content from different sources.
- Some background:
I hope you are enjoying the mash-up series, so far we have mashed kits of different styles from different designers that have a theme in common, we mashed 2 kits with different themes by the same designer and very different kits with the colour blue in common.
- Why Black & White?:
Just like it can make the details of a photo stand out without the distraction of colour, black and white in papers and elements makes the patterns and design the stars. These are the kits I’m mashing today. Both Designed by Soco & Pink Reptile Designs’s collab The Good Old Days and Allison Pennington’s Wild Flower have a strong black and white base and some lovely patterns among their papers, as well as some bird themed pieces in the elements that I know will work with my photos. I’m using a template too that has 2 photo spots and plenty of spots to feature lots of monochrome papers. It’s from Fiddle Dee Dee Design’s Unique {Dressed Down } templates but I’ve rotated the photo spots to portrait orientation to suit my photos and keep the diamond paper pieces nice and long rather than rotating the whole template and having wider diamonds.
- Mashing with black & white:
Christa says
This is a wonderful tutorial and explanation of your gorgeous page, Justine! Thank you for sharing your process with us, and sharing a great mash up page!
The Lilypad says
Aww thanks!
<3 Justine